The Cormorant at the Quay
As I walk down to the town Quay I see a Cormorant surface with a huge fish.
![Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Cormorant-The-Hall-of-Einar-1-5-725x408.jpg)
I start running towards it with my camera.
![Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Cormorant-The-Hall-of-Einar-8-725x483.jpg)
It’s still flapping and hard to control. The fish, that is.
![Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Cormorant-The-Hall-of-Einar-9-725x408.jpg)
The Cormorant takes an age to turn it round so that it’s head-first, ready for comfortable swallowing.
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Comfortable? I think there must be a better word to describe the act of getting a fish this size down.
I think it might be a Brown Trout. I check. Some say it’s a Salmon, some that it’s a Sea Trout, some that it’s a Brown Trout. I check. Sea Trout and Brown Trout are the same species, they just look very different.
![Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Cormorant-The-Hall-of-Einar-1-4-725x483.jpg)
The Cormorant trying to control the wriggling fish looks like I feel when I’m trying to stop the washing machine travelling across the room when it’s on fast spin.
![Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Cormorant-The-Hall-of-Einar-1-3-725x483.jpg)
Eventually the Cormorant swallows the fish.
![Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Cormorant-The-Hall-of-Einar-1-2-725x408.jpg)
I wouldn’t be able to eat for a week if I did that.